December 2009
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Iran: Anatomy of a Nuclear Breakthrough Gone Backwards by Farideh Farhi By Farideh Farhi
According to the headline writers at the hardline daily Keyhan, October 2 saw ‘a great victory for Iran’ in Geneva. That day, Iran’s nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili had sat down with representatives of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, the contact group known as the ‘P5+1,’ as well as the… Continue reading
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Leaked Document Shows Rich Nations Plan Climate Coup in Copenhagen By John Vidal
The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations. Continue reading
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The Devil and Mr. Obama By Joe Bageant
Well lookee here! An invite from my limey comrades to recap Barack Obama’s first year in office. Well comrades, I can do this thing two ways. I can simply state that the great mocha hope turned out to be a Trojan horse for Wall Street and the Pentagon. Or I can lay in an all-night… Continue reading
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No Business as Usual with Apartheid Israel
New York City human rights advocates caught the Israel Business Leaders Delegation to the United States by surprise this morning with a noisy protest outside their “breakfast reception amidst the Leviev jewelry collection” at the Leviev store on Madison Avenue. Groups worldwide have conducted a successful campaign for the boycott of Leviev’s companies due to… Continue reading
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Not so Swift, Hackers: Why the scandal sometimes called “ClimateGate” is overblown
The truth, however, is that while the CRU emails don’t always look very good—and not all of them can necessarily be defended—in the end this saga amounts to little more than a distraction from the real and burning issues in climate science and climate policy. Moreover, its suspicious timing—coming just weeks before the U.N. Copenhagen… Continue reading
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Palestine: Top Ten Brands to Boycott this Christmas & all year
While there are many Israeli and multinational companies that benefit from apartheid, we put together this list to highlight ten specific companies to target. Many of these produce goods in such a way that directly harms Palestinians — exploiting labor, developing technology for military operations, or supplying equipment for illegal settlements. Many are also the… Continue reading
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The Psychological Implosion of Our Soldiers By Dahr Jamail
US Army Specialist Lateef Al-Saraji, a decorated combat veteran, came back from the occupation of Iraq with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Saraji joined the military because he wanted to serve his country. He served well as a linguist and translator working under secret clearance with military intelligence, according to a letter of recommendation written… Continue reading
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Sign the Petition – Britain Must Implement the Goldstone Report
Please sign the petition here www.iparl.com/petition-psc calling on the British government to implement the Goldstone Report – we will be presenting the petition to Gordon Brown in January. Continue reading
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CONGO COMMUNIQUE: PATRICE, THE MARTYR, ALI THE “KILLER” AND TALES FROM CENTRAL AFRICA By Danny Schechter
When Lumumba finally was killed, in January 1961, no one was surprised when fingers started pointing at the CIA. A Senate investigation of CIA assassinations 14 years later found no proof that the agency was behind the hit, but suspicions linger. Today, new evidence suggests Belgium, Congo’s former colonialist ruler, was the mastermind. According to… Continue reading
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Aid will arrive in the Gaza Strip on 27 December
British Member of Parliament George Galloway left the UK on Sunday with a convoy of humanitarian aid and will arrive in the Gaza Strip on 27 December, according to the de facto government’s director of the anti-siege committee, Hamdi Sha’ath. Continue reading
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Ireland To Gaza Update
After 6 months of fundraising, 4 teams from all across Ireland will leave on Saturday December 5th, to travel 4,000 miles to Gaza, to deliver Ambulances and Humanitarian aid to the stricken region. In Tyrone, Galway, Dublin, Derry & Cork, volunteers have been working flat out fundraising, and raising awareness of the plight of the… Continue reading
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CSRC Project-First Workshop: “The Roots of the Economic Crisis: Critical Perspectives” – Part 1
This workshop explores alternative interpretations of the current economic crisis. The presentations are from organized labour, community activists and academics. The focus of this workshop is critical engagement, discussion and debate. Questions addressed include: How have various perspectives analyzed and understood the roots of the current economic crisis? Is there something fundamentally unsound about the… Continue reading
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Video: Climategate and those hacked E-mails
6 December, 2009 — Climate & Capitalism The least the conspiracy nuts could do would be to actually read the documents they stole… http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.904286 more about “Video: Cimategate and those hacked E-…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London – Events Newsletter, December 2009
NEWS 1. Best wishes from everyone at Housmans 2. End of the decade sale! EVENTS 3. ‘Change in Putin’s Russia’ with Simon Pirani. 4. Savage Messiah Zine Launch Party 5. ‘Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought’ with Steven Salaita. 6. ‘As Far as The Eye Can Sing’ with Frankie Armstrong. 7. ‘Bending The Continue reading
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America cannot be the hegemon of Western Asia By Lawrence Wilkerson
5 December, 2009 Wilkerson Pt2: Diplomacy must lead a regional solution to Afghan war; there is no military solution Part 2 4 December, 2009 Wilkerson Pt. 1: Lawrence Wilkerson: Obama’s campaign rhetoric and his generals put him in a corner on Afghanistan Part 1 Bio Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and Continue reading
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NATO’s Secret Transatlantic Bond: Nuclear Weapons In Europe By Rick Rozoff
Is Italy capable of delivering a thermonuclear strike? Could the Belgians and the Dutch drop hydrogen bombs on enemy targets?…Germany’s air force couldn’t possibly be training to deliver bombs 13 times more powerful than the one that destroyed Hiroshima, could it? December 2, one entitled “What to Do About Europe’s Secret Nukes.” In response to… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE SILENCE OF THE BBC 100 – BBC TRUST CHAIRMAN RESPONDS TO ‘NEWSPEAK’
One of our readers recently took us to task for a serious omission in our new book, ‘Newspeak in the 21st Century’ (Pluto Press, 2009). He asked how we could possibly have failed to include the BBC’s Newsnight presenter, Emily Maitlis. In August 2008, Maitlis opened Newsnight with these words about the conflict between Russia… Continue reading
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Armageddon, Straight Ahead By Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman
It is 1:30 am, and I just came back from Sheikh Jarakh –I see Jerusalem in flames, and know than my words will not succeed in conveying the horror of what I saw or the dread in my heart. Today the court ruled in favor of the settlers who had taken over part of yet… Continue reading
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Shock follows footage of settler running over Palestinian
An amateur video shocked Palestinians on Tuesday, catching what appeared to be an Israeli settler repeatedly running over a wounded Palestinian at a gas station in Hebron last week. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 